Search Results: a walk through wales in august by warner rev richard

R Cruttwell for C Dilly, 1798. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, half sheepskin, worn and rubbed, joints split and weakened with the upper board near detached. Marbled boards with offset printing. Gilt title to spine on black morocco. Loss at head and foot of spine, boards scuffed. Sepia aquatint frontis, maps to chapter headings, tour itinerary at rear. Signature of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the body of text clean and unmarked, .

Bath: R Cruttwell, 1798. Second Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GIRTON T. ALKEN S.. VG, 2nd ed, 1798, 1 pl, 17 illust maps, 13 printers devices. In refurbished half calf, marbled boards. Re-spined, raised bands, gilt tooling, original red calf label, gilt titles. Internally, half titlet, frontis, [7], (viii) only, [1], 2-238 pp, [2] adverts, 1 pl (B&W), 17 maps within text, 13 printers devices, new eps, ink name to fpd (D Wilkinson), ink numbers to fep, paper watermarked 97. A nice copy. (ESTC T92267. Graesse 421. Lowndes 2844/5. Allibone 2585). Warner, spent his vacation of August 1796 in Wales, walking from Bath to Caernarfon and back; he covered 36 miles on the first day and 462 miles in all, at an average of 26 miles a day. Naturally his tour included visits to antiquities, which he described in a series of letters, published as A Walk through Wales in 1797. See ODNB for a full bio.

Bath & C Dilly. London: R Cruttwell. C Dilly., 1799. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. GIRTON. ALKEN. BECKER. HUTLEY.. 2 Vols one, VG, 3rd, 1799 & 1799, 2nd ed, pls 3, map Illust 31, printers devices 25. In quarter cloth, blue boards, corners rubbed, some marks. Spine, no title, edges worn. Internally, half title, frontis, [7], (viii) only, [1], 2-238 pp, [2] adverts, 1 pl, map illust 15, printers devices 12. [2], half title, frontis, [7], (viii-x), [1], 2-365 pp, [1], [2] adverts, 2 pls, 16 illust maps, 13 devices. Paper watermarked 1798 & 1798, hinges strengthened, ink name to half title (Alexander W Bill), some offsetting & edge browning. (210*129 mm). (Allibone 2585. Lowndes 2844/5. Graesse 421). Titles are: A Walk Through Wales, in August 1797, 3rd edition, 1799 and A Second Walk through Wales in August and September 1798, 2nd edition, 1799. Warner, spent his vacation in August 1796 in Wales, walking from Bath… Read More

No foxing but frontis of Tintern Abbey and title page browned. 17 maps, one at the beginning of the account of each day's walk. 13 'printer's devices'. An itinerary is provided for the walk which totalled 462 miles between 14th and 31st August, 1797. No inscription, name plate or marking in text.